# چول
## Chagatai
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl.

### Noun

چول (çöl)
* desert

## Iraqi Arabic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چول (çöl)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʃoːl/

### Noun

چول (čōl) m
* desert, wasteland

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čöl (“steppe, desert”); cognate with Azerbaijani çöl, Bashkir сүл (sül), Kazakh шөл (şöl), Kyrgyz чөл (cöl), Tatar чүл (çül), Turkmen çöl, Uyghur چۆل (chöl) and Uzbek choʻl.

#### Noun

چول • (çöl)
* desert, wasteland, an uninhabited and uncultivated tract of land

#### Adjective

چول • (çöl)
* uninhabited or uninhabitable, barren, waste
    Synonym: خراب (harab)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çöl
* → Armenian: չոլ (čʻol)
* → Iraqi Arabic: چول (čōl)

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çöl1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1042
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چول”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Desertum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 362
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1683
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çöl”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

### Etymology 2

From Persian جل (joll, “saddlecloth”).

#### Alternative forms

* جل (cüll)

#### Noun

چول • (çul)
* haircloth, horsehair, a cloth made of the hairs of a horse
* saddlecloth, horsecloth, a rug or similar cloth used to cover a horse
    Synonyms: چاپراق (çaprak), خاشه (haşa)

##### Derived terms

* چول طوتمز (çul tutmaz, “unsettled, fickle, shiftless”)
* چول چوال (çul çuval, “haircloth sack”)
* چوللاتمق (çullatmak, “to make or let be covered with a horsecloth”)
* چوللامق (çullamak, “to cover with a horsecloth”)
* چوللانمق (çullanmak, “to be covered with a horsecloth”)
* چوللو (çullu, “furnished with a horsecloth”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: çul
* → Armenian: չուլ (čʻul), ջուլ (ǰul), չո̈ւլ (čʻül), ջո̈ւլ (ǰül)
* → Bulgarian: чул (čul)
* → Greek: τσόλι (tsóli)
* → Macedonian: чул (čul)
* → Serbo-Croatian: čȕl / чу̏л

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çul1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1056
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 481
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stragula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1600
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1683
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739

## Punjabi
### Etymology

From چَبَل (cabal).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /t͡ʃə.ʋəlᵊ/

### Adjective

چَوَل • (caval) (indeclinable, Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ)
* (derogatory) tight; prick
    Synonyms: کَھچّ (khacc), کَمِینَہ (kamīnah)

### Noun

چَوَل • (caval) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਵਲ)
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#### Declension
### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “چوَل”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Chagatai چول (çöl).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t͡ʃuːl/

### Noun

چُول • (cūl) m (Hindi spelling चूल)
* desert, barren land

### References

* “چول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “چول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.